There seems to be more festivals cropping up than ever in 2017, but one which lovers of indie music cannot miss is 110 Above. Set in the rural location of Gospall Hall Farm, last year’s line-up included Vaults, The Japanese House, Sundara Karma and Pretty Vicious. This year’s performers are just as impressive.
On the 4th to 6th August acts will be making their way to the farm, and headlining Friday night are Black Honey – a band who once kept every move they made under closely guarded wraps. They’ve become massive underground thanks to their slick, grungy songs including ‘Corrine’ and ‘All My Pride’. Alongside Black Honey as joint Friday headliners are feel-good and vibrant indie-rockers Little Comets, who have achieved a cult following ever since their debut 2011 release In Search of Elusive Little Comets.
110 Above will have Sundara Karma as their Saturday headliner – despite only being together under their name for two years, they have already managed to land an album in the top 30 of the UK Album charts, as well as recently supporting Two Door Cinema Club on their winter tour. Songs such as ‘Flame’ and ‘Vivienne’ accompanied with intriguing visuals have gained the group a large following, so much so that they have already been booked to headline Dot to Dot Festival.
Sunday night is due to have two headliners – whilst the festival is still teasing the reveal of one act and is therefore yet to be announced, Eliza and the Bear has been listed to be the headliner (on the website Clean Cut Kid is stated as the headliner on Sunday instead, but both are definitely playing the festival at some time over the weekend). The rest of the line-up is just as high quality and enticing as the headliners; other names appearing include Blaenavon, Seafret, Clean Cut Kid, Inheaven, Idle Frets, High Tyde, and The Night Cafe. As always, plenty of other names are on the complete line-up poster, plus other announcements are due imminently.
Tickets are still available but are unsurprisingly selling fast – to find out more about details you can look at the 110 Above website here.
Words by Georgia Stephenson